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English Department

English Department

Beth B. Bachmann

Writer in Residence

Beth Bachmann's first book, Temper, was selected by Lynn Emanuel as winner of the AWP Award Series 2008 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry and won the 2010 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Her poems appear in American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, and Tin House, among other journals, and have been anthologized in Alice Redux: New Stories of Alice, Lewis and Wonderland and Best New Poets 2005 and 2007. She holds graduate degrees from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and Concordia University in Montreal and teaches creative writing at Vanderbilt University. Her new work won the the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award for a manuscript in progress.

 

Representative publications

I am at work on a second collection of poems titled, Do Not Rise. Poems from the manuscript have appeared in American Poetry Review and Ploughshares and are forthcoming in The Southern Review. Artist statements on individual poems from the new book can be found at http://blog.pshares.org/2012/05/10/beth-bachmann/

and http://www.missourireview.com/archives/beth-bachmann-alternative-uses-for-ascot/